Welcome to New Music Friday, where we wrap-up all of the releases from the week ranging from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie. Give our release calendar a look to see what other releases are coming up. The NMF playlist can be found here or at the bottom of the page.
STAFF PICKS
TNL VZN – Scratch (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: TNL VZN are a youthful voice from Birmingham’s music scene. “Scratch” shows off chunky alt-gaze tones, juxtaposed by vocals airy vocals that rip into bellows for the track’s big choruses, plus a classic “anti-solo” in the bridge. “Scratch” is a heavy offering that maintains a classic structure, showing off one side of the band – jump into their EP for tracks like “The Pit” to explore their full dynamic range.
Love Rarely – P.A.F (Outro I) (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify)
Joe recommends: Latest single “P.A.F (Outro I)” from Love Rarely fuses their distinctive technical prowess with a post-punk flair, crafting an electrifying and enthralling sound bound to strike a chord with fans.
Insula Iscariot – Weak Incision (Single)
Label – BLEAKHOUSE
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Explosive and haunting comes Insula’s Iscariot’s latest single “Weak Incision”, a potent bass line blended with ghostly vocals and sampled screams conjures a listen that forces its way into the mind.
Glassing – Defacer (Single)
Label – Pelagic Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: I don’t think much in the screamo/blackgaze/post metal arena has beaten Glassing’s 2021 record Twin Dream. They’re now back with a new LP in April. “Defacer” is absolutely the place to start if you don’t know them: all the nasty riffs and grooves, bloodsucker vocals, and soaring blackened furrows, all in a three minute package.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Bloom – Maybe in Another Life
Label – Greyscale Records
Bokassa – All Out of Dreams
Label – Indie Recordings
DEMATERIALIZE – The Abyss Below
Label – Independent
Farsot – Life Promised Death
Label – Prophecy Productions
For I Am King – Crown (Deluxe)
Label – Independent
Ihsahn – Ihsahn
Label – Spinefarm
Litosth – Cerariana
Label – Maicon Ristow
See You Next Tuesday – Relapses
Label – Good Fight Music
Thy Shining Curse – Theurgia
Label – ViciSolum Records
ZOMBIESHARK! – Die Laughing.
Label – Theoria Records
Mark Of The Altar – A Dramatic Display (EP)
Label – Never Sorry Inc
The Wise Man’s Fear – What Slept Beneath Tarvos (EP)
Label – Independent
Assume Nothing – Assume Nothing (EP)
Label – Independent
Aborted – Dreadbringer (feat. Ben Duerr of Shadow of Intent) (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
After Hour Animals – Black Hole (Single)
Label – Independent
And Hell Followed With – Oren: The Ogre (feat. Adam Mercer of A Wake in Providence) (Single)
Label – Hollowed Records
A Sense of Purpose – Ruin (Single)
Label – Independent
Curses – Werifesteri (Single)
Label – Independent
Diamonds to Dust – Child of the King (feat. Sean Landman & Arde Ostowari) (Single)
Label – Manifest Records
Foxblood – Charlatan Blues (Single)
Label – Independent
Lightworker – First Light (Single)
Label – Solid State Records
Livealie – Casting Shadows (Single)
Label – Independent
Night Verses – Glitching Prisms (feat. Brandon Boyd) (Single)
Label – Rude Records
No Life – Identity Crisis (Single)
Label – Independent
Reflections – Deva (Single)
Label – Independent
SAME PAINS – Kin of Death (Single)
Label – Independent
Shading – Rakuen (Single)
Label – Independent
Still Here – Despair (feat. Josh Landrith of Lethal Method) (Single)
Label – Independent
(The) John Candy – Arthur Rhodes (feat. ZOMBIESHARK!) (Single)
Label – Rad Dudes, Inc
The Narrator – No Answer (Single)
Label – Independent
Two Sides of Me – Parasite (Single)
Label – Independent
Upon a Burning Body – Another Ghost (Single)
Label – Independent
Xhale – The Devil in the Details (Single)
Label – Flow State Records
As I May – The Last Breath (Single)
Label – 13.TH
Crossfaith – ZERO (Single)
Labe – UNFD
Diamond Construct – Switchblade OST (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records
Hand of Juno – Psychotic Banana (Single)
Label – Out Of Line
Human Deception – Human Deception (Single)
Label – Superbia Music Group
While She Sleeps – TO THE FLOWERS (Single)
Label – Spinefarm
Wristmeetrazor – Trepanation (Single)
Label – Prosthetic Records
A Serpent’s Hand – Lightless (Single)
Label – A.S.H Studios
Lintworm – Mommy (Single)
Label – Genet Records
Vilify – Light Bringer (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
Collateral – We Still Know
Label – Fortress Records
Lavish Glass – Backwash
Label – Sleepy Sheep Records
Shooting Daggers – Love & Rage
Label – New Heavy Sounds
Divine Sentence – Promo ’24 (EP)
Label – Independent
Exit – Annihilation Promo (EP)
Label – Independent
No Relief – Destroy Your World (EP)
Label – Rest Assured
ULTRAS – ULTRAS II (EP)
Label – Convulse Records
Bird Law – Aroma Of Misery (EP)
Label – Scum Punk Records
Suntouch House – Laugh To Myself (EP)
Label – DAZE/EPHYRA
Bruiserweight – Vanity (Single)
Label – Independent
GASP – Running (Single)
Label – Lövely Records
Haest – I Was Bullied by a Horse Once (Really Bad) (Single)
Label – TNS Records
Kharma – Clip Your Wings (Single)
Label – Flatspot Records
Squid Pisser – Pay To Rot (Single)
Label – SKIN GRAFT Records
Vespid – Face in the Mirror (Single)
Label – Independent
Despize – Roll Cage / Sniper (Single)
Label – Northern Unrest
Spaced – Rat Race (Single)
Label – Revelation Records
You Die First – Blame (Single)
Label – Collyde Records
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
CHERYM – Take It Or Leave It
Label – Alcopop! Records
Prize Horse – Under Sound
Label – New Zine Recordings
Profiler – A Digital Nowhere
Label – Sharptone
The Requiem – A Cure to Poison the World
Label – Fearless Records
DeadFlight – No Love Lost
Label – DDFT
What Haunts You – Our Dark Shapes (EP)
Label – Independent
Alien Nosejob – Cold Bare Facts (Single)
Label – Anti Fade Records
Andromida – Hollow Heart (Single)
Label – FiXT
Bad/Love – UNGØD (Single)
Label – Independent
Blight Town – 1408 (Single)
Label – Gungy Yetyi Records
Bouquet – In The Creek (Single)
Label – Independent
FEVER 333 – READY ROCK (Single)
Label – Independent
Foxblood – Charlatan Blues (Single)
Label – Independent
From Fall to Spring – CAST AWAY (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Greymind – You’re My Medicine (Single)
Label – VERSION III
Heaven in Her Arms – Dawn Yarn (Single)
Label – Independent
paradise fell. – SUFFOCATE. (Single)
Label – Independent
Lvvrs – Fever Night (Midnight Fantasy) (Single)
Label – Independent
Modern Mimes – Roses in Ruins (Single)
Label – Independent
PVRIS – Burn the Witch (feat. Tommy Genesis & Alice Longyu Gao) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Wake Up Hate – TWO-FACED (Single)
Label – Dark Harmony Records
Blackout Problems – WHALES (Single)
Label – Hansa a division
Boston Manor – Container (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
CANTERVICE – Into the Dark (Single)
Label – FiXT
Dayseeker – Burial Plot (Acoustic) (Single)
Label – Spinefarm
High Sierra Club – Write You a Letter (Single)
Label – Independent
Stand Atlantic – WARZ0NE (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
The Continuous – Bitter and Hollow (Single)
Label – Continuity Records
Throw The Fight – Straight Up (Single)
Label – Independent
Anemoria – The Metamorphosis (Single)
Label – Independent
De’Lour – Crown (Single)
Label – Independent
L.S. Dunes – How Dare You (Single)
Label – Fantasy Records
Loveless – Addicted (Single)
Label – BMG
SIlver Fang – Aftermath (Stripped) (Single)
Label – Independent
TOAST – MICROPLASTICS (Single)
Label – Breadbin Productions
Varia – Algorhythm (Single)
Label – Independent
HEALTH – Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) (Single)
Label – Loma Vista
World Divided – Apocalypse (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
airshade – floating
Label – from heart to heart
IDLES – TANGK
Label – Partisan
Laura Jane Grace – Hole In My Head
Label – Polyvinyl
Talk Show – Effigy
Label – Missing Piece Records
Varsity – Souvenirs
Label – Independent
Zanias – Ecdysis
Label – Fleisch Records
36 – Reality Engine
Label – 3six Recordings
Kim Petras – Slut Pop Miami
Label – Amigo Records
MANAPOOL – alexandra II (EP)
Label – dreamstation.fm
Alaskan Tapes – Dim (Single)
Label – LEITER
april june – baby’s out of luck again (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Bedroom – Test Spot (Original Version) (Single)
Label – Independent
Dua Lipa – Training Session (Single)
Label – Warner Music
DIIV – Brown Paper Bag (Single)
Label – Fantasy Records
In Explosions – youth (Single)
Label – droneshipx
MACHINYST – MORTAL (feat. INHUMAN) (Single)
Label – Nulleins Records
rurie – ideal & idolatry (Single)
Label – Independent
utsyō\\ – breathe (Single)
Label – Independent
Boeckner – Euphoria (Single)
Label – Sub pop
FlowerBoyDeMii – Narcissistic Nightmare (feat. Egofear) (Single)
Label – Independent
Lambrini Girls – God’s Country (Single)
Label – City Slang
Kill Eva – Pray for Poshlaya Molly (Single)
Labre – umamgmt
Ride – Last Frontier (Single)
Label – Wichita Recordings
Aimer – 800 (Single)
Label – Sony Music Records
CD Ghost – Fantasy (Single)
Label – Independent
Hxly – Faded Reverie (feat. dead fave) (Single)
Label – Ink & Wash
Fever Ray – Shiver (Single)
Label – Rabid Records
LOMAJI – RnB (Single)
Label – Independent
Siv Jakobsen – Lay All Your Love On Me (Single)
Label – The Nordic Mellow
VR SEX – Inanimate Love (Single)
Label – Dais Records
Warpaint – Common Blue (Single)
Label – Rough Trade Records
Lizzy McAlpine – Older (Single)
Label – RCA Records